- Nevada, USA -
Officers with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department animal cruelty section responded to an apartment complex in the 1400 block of North Lamb Boulevard on August 11, 2022, after a neighbor reported a foul odor from a decomposing dog and the whimpering of another dog.
Officers found two Pitbulls. Sadly, one was dead and the other one was in distress and had no food or water.
Police said that 32-years-old JOHNNISE DENNELL MYLES (pictured), left her apartment on August 5, 2022, to go on a trip to California.
MYLES said she was supposed to return to Las Vegas on August 7, 2022; however, she did not come back until August 14, 2022, because she was arrested in the Golden State on an unrelated charge, and after her rental vehicle was impounded, she had to wait for her mother to give her a ride back to Las Vegas.
KLAS reports that MYLES “told police she did not see anything wrong with leaving the animals on the patio, even in the extreme Las Vegas heat, because she believed they had enough food and water.”
According to Las Vegas Review-Journal, MYLES “told police she believed the dogs would be kept cool by a fan in the laundry room that was on the patio.”
The news agency further reports that “Animal control officers found the fan, dog bed, dog food and an empty five-gallon bucket on the patio. Temperatures reached highs of 96 to 105 degrees while the dogs were left outside, according to the report.”
The live dog was not the only VOICELESS VICTIM removed from the hellish apartment. Officers also found and seized a lizard, a snake, and about twenty fish. The snake and the lizard did not have any food or water.
Police said a necropsy would be performed on the deceased furbaby.
MYLES was arrested on August 16, 2022, and charged with two counts of willful or malicious torture, maiming, or killing of a dog.
She was released after posting bail and is due in court on Wednesday, September 14, 2022.
On an unrelated note, online court records show that in 2014, MYLES faced felony charges related to burglary, and buy, possess, receive, or withhold stolen property.
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